UC#3 had the opportunity to see Democracy in Action a few days ago, watching in person while Justice Thomas Clarence napped thru oral arguments in Cantero v. Bank of America. He’s not “Sleeping” Justice Thomas has complained bitterly that he is not paid enough (Quarter Mil USD a year). It is rumored that he and […]
Category: Sticking It To The Man
White Rabbit => Bolero Connection She said that the music was heavily influenced by Miles Davis’s 1960 album Sketches of Spain, particularly Davis’s treatment of the Concierto de Aranjuez (1939). She later said: “Writing weird stuff about Alice backed by a dark Spanish march was in step with what was going on in San Francisco […]
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Baymak, Siberia
In a town of 17,710 people, 10,000 came out to protest the sentencing of an anti-war activist. The protesters were armed with snowballs. The goon squad was armed to the teeth. The unrest on Wednesday – one of the largest reported demonstrations since the war in Ukraine began in 2022 – erupted amid the trial […]
Today we have an opportunity to reflect nostalgically on the Trans-Siberian railroad, and also practice our past tense! So…. Russia had a rail line that cut through the remote Siberian wilderness. A true marvel of engineering, at one point it had a 9.5 mile tunnel (the Severomuysky Tunnel). Since this was a critical piece of […]
An extremely strange and disturbing 2015 event at the Tomball hospital raises questions about the ethics, morality, and legal issues. [ed-note: Tomball is part of the Houston metropolitan area, northeast of Houston proper. It has its own HEB.] HOUSTON – Eleven months ago George Pickering II was in a very different place in his life. […]
Without telling me you haven’t read a book since high school….
Thanks to UC#1.b for today’s topic. Mr. Lee Meyer was recently pulled over in Norfolk, Nebraska. No tickets were issued, but I would assume an interesting discussion ensued with the local police. Beef Biproducts Oh, dear. The beef biproducts. A Cautionary Tail / Tale? This is what happens when you don’t have your very own […]
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#Girther Movement
Where do I begin? This is almost too easy. That being said, 215lb stretches credulity, and WLBOTT considered selected it’s own slate of weighters and submitting our own results to the Library of Congress. However, the 215 number makes Sally the Intern the winner, and she was counting on the prize money to purchase ramen […]